Just got my order in and it seems BGS is doing away with the extra little autograph grade square on the top right of the slab and is now putting all autograph grades on the back of the label.
I just sent in 26 cards and 22 of them were autographs, some cards dating back to 1993 (so they are not all thicker cards) and they ALL had the autograph grade on the back of the label.
Think I like it better the old way.

(11-14-2012 05:50 PM)creativemunky Wrote: Just got my order in and it seems BGS is doing away with the extra little autograph grade square on the top right of the slab and is now putting all autograph grades on the back of the label.
I just sent in 26 cards and 22 of them were autographs, some cards dating back to 1993 (so they are not all thicker cards) and they ALL had the autograph grade on the back of the label.
Think I like it better the old way.

Me too!! Me too!! I talked to Mark Anderson (the Director of Grading) and from our emails, I thought for sure that my Auto chip (that's what they call it) would on the front. But alas, it wasn't. I think the Auto grade looks better in front on its own label. JMO.

Im also quite the fan of having the auto grade on the back for the reasons the last guy mentioned. If its not a 10, it ruins the look. Plus I think having a little floating chip moving around in there looks tacky. But I do like subgrades on the front rather than the back. To each their own!

I've had 3 or 4 orders in the last 2 months, it seems totally random to me where they put the auto grade. It's always consistent within the order itself, but whether they're on the front or back seems to change with every submission.

(11-15-2012 09:42 PM)kr0n420 Wrote: I've had 3 or 4 orders in the last 2 months, it seems totally random to me where they put the auto grade. It's always consistent within the order itself, but whether they're on the front or back seems to change with every submission.

Mark Anderson (Director of Grading) told me it has to do with the thickness of the card.